I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
In the motive lies the good or ill.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
The motive power is the cause of all life.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.